Willis Towers Watson will require fund managers to provide data about the gender composition across their workforce, a move that responds to evidence that more women in the workforce improves financial performance. The plan was mentioned by Luba Nikulina, global head of manager research at Willis Towers Watson, at an MSCI event on the subject of women in finance in London last week. She spoke of “hardwiring this into the process of allocating money”. “If asset owners add their voice it will help to move things forward,” she added. She was responding to a comment from a representative of a local authority pension fund about asset owners wanting better data on gender representation in roles below board level

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